Woven baskets characterized by a particular distinctive pattern have previously been found only in the immediate vicinity of the prehistoric village of Palea and therefore were believed to have been made only by the Palean people. Recently, however, archaeologists discovered such a "Palean" basket in Lithos, an ancient village across the Brim River from Palea. The Brim River is very deep and broad, and so the ancient Paleans could have crossed it only by boat, and no Palean boats have been found. Thus it follows that the so-called Palean baskets were not uniquely Palean.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
In the context mentioned, it is stated that the so called Palean woven baskets were not uniquely Palean since the archeologists also found in similar basket in Lithos which is an ancient village across the Brim river of Palea. The author came to conclusion based on the assertion that to reach Lithos the only means of transport to cross the river which is very deep and broad is by using boats, it seems to there are no boats found in that region. However, before this recommendation can be properly evaluated two questions must be answered.
Said, Brim river which is very deep and broad, is it the same situation across the full length of the river? It is possible that the river is deep and broad for some length along its distance. It is possible there might be shortening of the river in width and not much deep at certain points which could help the Paleans in reaching the other side of the river pretty easily without evening boats compared to a situation where it is very deep and broad. If the above is true the argument does not hold the water.
What really the boats are made up of? It is possible that the Palean might have boats which are constructed using the wood which decay over the time and appears to be there were no boats present. Perhaps the constructed boats were used as firewood especially in winter seasons. If either of these scenarios were true, then the conclusions drawn in the argument are significantly weakened.
In the conclusion, as it stands now, is considerably flawed due to its reliance on the several unwanted assumptions. If the author is able to answer the two questions and provide more evidence then it will be possible to evaluate the proposed recommendations.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 301 350
No. of Characters: 1383 1500
No. of Different Words: 154 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.165 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.595 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.469 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 82 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 57 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 41 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 22 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.154 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.371 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.462 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.348 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.59 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.097 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 455, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...uation where it is very deep and broad. If the above is true the argument does not...
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Line 7, column 194, Rule ID: LESS_MORE_THEN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'than'?
Suggestion: than
...two questions and provide more evidence then it will be possible to evaluate the pro...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, really, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1416.0 2260.96107784 63% => OK
No of words: 301.0 441.139720559 68% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.70431893688 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53815379745 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.524916943522 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 437.4 705.55239521 62% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.7276971871 57.8364921388 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.923076923 119.503703932 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1538461538 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.69230769231 5.70786347227 47% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.103782594041 0.218282227539 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0340008262119 0.0743258471296 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0458557296879 0.0701772020484 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0603683788071 0.128457276422 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0614510979397 0.0628817314937 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.28 12.5979740519 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 98.500998004 59% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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